I’ve been trying to get back into my hermit lifestyle now that I’m done with conventions for awhile.

I reread some Ike Garuda tonight:

Garuda is a book I got in some 50cent bin a million years ago, there were 2 issues but I’ve only ever seen the 1st. It’s good sci fi detective comics. I like that genre, I want more of it.

It’s written by Elane Lee who worked on Starstruck with Kaluta and drawn by James Sherman who did some good fill in issues of American Flagg and Dreadstar.

This comic has a cool way of traveling from planet to planet in it. They destroy your body and regrow a new you in a womb tank thing at your destination with your memory transported into it. The main characters body dies at least 5 times in the first issue jumping from place to place.

Here’s him comming out of the womb. I like that even though he’s got the wolverine style crotch hiding shadow his dong won’t stay hidden. “in your face bub!”

And I like this scene of getting a lady out of a suitcase:

solid stuff. here’s some more pages.

I was also looking at an old Heavy metal from 91. I like the art in this Juan Gimenez Ca-rt-oon story. I prefer this style to the newer color Gimenez stuff I’ve read– it feels like the space baby of early Manara and Otomo.

And I like that the main lady in it has a mullet.

That’s where I’m at today, more mullet, more sci fi detectives. please and thank you.

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I managed to dig up a picture of a preto magix thing I was obcessed with when I was a kid. It’s the ewok village printed on a board game style board that you’d rub tranfer on ewoks whereever you wanted on it. I think this thing is at the heart of my interst in doing wheres waldo style drawings.

Here’s Rumiko Takahashi being an OG. I like that she has nerd buttons on her shirt.

some All a-Round Intercept and Escort Lady Ariel .

and a young Optimus prime.

Also if anyone is intersted in buying pages from me, Stokoe, Marley or Marian there’s new one’s up here:

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Hey, did you see these nice Japanese edition covers to Song of Ice and Fire? I can’t remember the last time I bought a new fantasy book with a cover that I didn’t cringe to look at… (We met at TCAF on Sat by the way, you drew on the cover of my King City #12 and Marian sketched in my copy of Beast. Tall female redhead? Ah well, it’s okay if you don’t remember, it was a busy day. Glad you had a good time, it’s always awesome as a fan!)

Dang that Akira/Adena drawing is so cool. A stunning realization I had a few months ago was that Akira is Moebius books spun out through manga conventions. But it doesn’t suffer from seeing the source material. Awesome, cool, fantastic

They destroy your body and regrow a new you in a womb tank thing at your destination with your memory transported into it.

That’s also how it’s done in the novel Altered Carbon, which is also a detective story! It’s fairly good, and would probably make a decent graphic novel.

I’m not sure I like Young Optimus. Old Optimus always felt like the nerdy kid made good, but Young Optimus looks like he was on the Polyhex High football team and dated all the cheerdroids. What a jerk.

I feel bad commenting on your collection of stuff with more stuff, but when I read this I thought that you’d love it. This is an old anthro Max comic that he draw for “El Vibora” in 1981. I think that this remain unpublished out of that magazine, unless I’m mistaken. I don’t know how he colored it, but it looks awesome.

awesome sketchbook stuff. i love the girl with the dotted-line underwear or tan line or whatever. probably the best girl you’ve ever drawn, love her legs.

i love that TCAF panel recording, i wish i could have gone to that! you guys are so learned and erudite, it really puts things in perspective for me as to how little i know about comics, creators, and comics history and prominent figures in comics history. if i was on the panel i’d be like “Barry Windsor Smith? who’s that?” and have nothing to add to the story conversation. i had to google some of the people and comics in the pictures you guys discussed, haha. i really dig Pope’s observations on licensed characters being themes rather than characters.

i did read a lot of comics when i was younger and i read a lot of manga in college so those were definitely influences for me, but i think beyond the really huge ones like Eastman & Laird and Bill Watterson, i’m not that influenced by comics at all, so maybe you’re right. i feel most influenced by film and music.

i don’t know, you’d think if they wanted to sell action figures then wouldn’t they benefit from the character changing, right? then you get multiple costumes and eras and for each “change” the character goes through you get a new toy!!! or they can just keep making 200 Batman variants. Associate Producer Batman or Kidney Thief Batman or whatever.

Damn, I love your blog! It’s like a drug to me or something. Which might be the reason why I immediately thought you might dig this when I first saw it: http://tinyurl.com/3dmdreq That site has a lot of cool Japanese posters for American films and they generally look a lot better than the originals, even when they dont change the image much. I guess it’s the typography. http://www.filmonpaper.com/?s=japan&post_type=poster

that ewok things was by far the coolest thing ever, i use to stare at it as a kid too, saved it my whole life and when i went on tour one year i made the mistake of leaving it in my closet and my mom threw it out, i was pretty pissed when i got back home